Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 21:30:44 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> To: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RANDOMDEV inspired realitycheck regarding i386/i486... Message-ID: <2533.974316644@axl.fw.uunet.co.za> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 15 Nov 2000 11:06:33 PST." <200011151907.eAFJ7Rb87207@cwsys.cwsent.com>
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Can I just say that I think we've strayed _way_ off track here. This whole thing started with someone saying that the CPU required to seed the random device is prohibitive for the 386. Unless there are other undisclosed issues, I think we may be putting the cart before the horse here. Mark Murray has at least two different avenues down which performance improvements for the random device lie: * counter jitter instead of getnanotime(2) * rijndael instead of blowfish Perhaps it would be wise to hold off on reminiscing about the good old days, when FreeBSD's ancestors would operate with less memory than FreeBSD uses to wipe its bottom, until we're actually sure that the only issue raised is a real issue. Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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